When comparing Google Compute Cloud vs F(x) Data Cloud, the Slant community recommends F(x) Data Cloud for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud computing platforms ?” F(x) Data Cloud is ranked 3rd while Google Compute Cloud is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose F(x) Data Cloud is:
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free credit
You get free starting credit to use, with no other limitations.
Pro Free tier
Google Cloud Computing has a free tier. It's not a trial, it's just limited, but always free to use.
Pro Pay per minute
Pay per minute plans make it cheaper to use for many users, since at 2 hours and 1 minute you don't pay for 3 hours, but rather for 2 hours and 1 minute.
Pro Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
Pro High uptime
All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime.
Pro Cost-friendly
F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month.
Pro Great Support
Typically answers in minute.
Pro Provides high configurations
They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required.
Cons
Con Poor support for sql databases
You don't have a lot of options besides mysql.
Con No GPU provided
GPU is not provided.